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‘Deliverymen should be more careful’: SG woman receives two broken tonic bottles from Shopee
SINGAPORE: A 52-year-old woman was left disappointed after two of the six tonic bottles she ordered online arrived broken, with liquid leaking from the package. The woman had bought two sets of three tonic bottles during an online sale. Each set was originally priced at S$167,…
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Woman injured in recent fatal road accident at Tampines Ave 12 seeking psychiatric treatment due to trauma, says Baey Yam Keng
SINGAPORE: In a social media post on Tuesday (Nov 3), Baey Yam Keng provided an update about a young woman who had been injured in a recent fatal road accident along Tampines Ave 12. Shortly after 10:30 pm on Oct 29, a blue Audi ploughed through a road divider and crashed into…
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‘I did not feel safe’: Singapore woman ends relationship with neurosurgeon over alleged hostility from his mother
SINGAPORE: A Singapore woman has ended her relationship with a 40-year-old neurosurgeon after allegedly enduring repeated hostility from his mother, who she claimed threw away her belongings, shouted at her and spoke ill of her behind her back. In an anonymous post on Reddit's…
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‘Is this how Singaporean bosses think?’: Foreign employee fears job cuts after CEO touts AI
SINGAPORE: A foreign employee has expressed concern over his company's future after a newly hired Singaporean CEO reportedly made several unsettling remarks about how artificial intelligence (AI) could change the way businesses operate. In an anonymous post on Reddit's…
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SMS Murali Pillai: Police investigating US man who refused to pay rent to elderly Singaporean couple
SINGAPORE: A report from last month that a man from the United States had refused to continue to pay rent to the elderly Singaporean couple who owned the home that he and his family had moved to received a lot of attention from Singaporeans, especially after it was discovered…
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Indonesia says diplomacy with Singapore ‘must not stop’ amid bilateral tensions
JAKARTA: Amid the recent troubles between Indonesia and Singapore due to this year’s severe transboundary haze and Indonesia’s decision to cut gas exports to Singapore, diplomacy is ongoing, the Jakarta Globe quoted a senior Indonesian diplomat as saying on Wednesday (Nov 4).…
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Ex-Singapore diplomat warns of racial undertones in Indonesian ex-minister's attacks on Singapore
SINGAPORE: In a social media post on Wednesday (Nov 4), the former diplomat Bilahari Kausikan took aim at Muhammad Lutfi , the Indonesian businessman who had served as Minister of Trade and who has also been releasing a series of nationalistic videos critical of Singapore and…
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Grace Fu: NEA officers may give advisories to people rummaging through garbage bins for beverage containers
SINGAPORE: In Parliament this week, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu said that individuals who rummage through public refuse containers, including those who do so for the sake of gathering bottles and cans in order to collect a refund, may be given an…
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In Parliament: SM Shanmugam & WP MP Fadli Fawzi spar for 18 minutes on foreign & national interests
SINGAPORE: In Parliament on Wednesday (Nov 4), there was a lengthy exchange between Workers’ Party MP Fadli Fawzi (Aljunied) and Senior Minister K. Shanmugam, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs (MHA). The back-and-forth between the two men…
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Fire breaks out at Aljunied tutoring centre; locked door delays access to unit
SINGAPORE: A day before a BMW caught fire outside the Grand Hyatt Hotel along Orchard Road on Nov 3 , another fire broke out at a tutoring centre in Aljunied on Nov 2. A concerned reader reported seeing thick smoke coming from the unit, and at least three fire trucks were…
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BMW catches fire outside Singapore's Concorde Hotel, thick smoke reaches eighth-floor office
SINGAPORE: A BMW’s hood suddenly caught fire outside the Concorde Hotel on Orchard Road on Nov 3, sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky and reaching the eighth floor of a nearby office building. Case details revealed that a 50-year-old woman noticed black smoke…
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‘Cockroaches in my food’: Man allegedly uses restaurant's own Google photos to demand S$300
SINGAPORE: A restaurant owner nearly fell victim to an alleged scam after a man claimed he had found cockroaches in his food and demanded S$300 in compensation. The owner later discovered that the photos sent as evidence had been taken from the restaurant's own Google reviews.…
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Yong tau foo stall at Chinatown to stay open after all, as only one brother is leaving the hawker life
SINGAPORE: After two brothers announced that their five-month-old hawker stall in Chinatown would be closing, there has been a happy turnaround, as one of them is staying on in the business. Thirty-one-year-old Troy Lee and his brother Scott, 29, opened New Horse Noodles in…
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‘Am I stupid for giving up a SG job offer?’: Malaysian man, 27, has second thoughts about moving to Singapore for work
SINGAPORE: A 27-year-old Malaysian has sparked discussion online after asking whether he would be “stupid” to turn down a job in Singapore in favour of staying home. In a post on Reddit's r/MalaysianPF, he explained that he had received two offers: one in Malaysia, with a…
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Man alleges brother-in-law pocketed baby's S$5k ang baos before moving out and asking wife for separation
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man is seeking advice after his brother-in-law allegedly kept more than S$5,000 in angbao money collected during their baby’s 100-day celebration without telling his wife. Days later, the husband reportedly moved out and announced that he wanted to live…
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Singapore F&B worker gets grief from manager over 2nd MC this year
SINGAPORE: An F&B worker has turned to Reddit for advice after his manager made a reproachful remark about his second medical leave (MC) of the year. In his post, the worker said he had notified his manager three days in advance that he would be unable to work on Nov 1 as he was…
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Ex-NMP Calvin Cheng: Singapore needs to do more for your young people
SINGAPORE: Sharing a screenshot of a BBC article about how protests in Germany on Saturday (Oct 31) turned violent, former Nominated Member of Parliament Calvin Cheng had two takeaways for Singapore. The city-state “needs to do more for your young people” was the first point…
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Amendment to Singapore haze law increases fines to S$20 million ‘to underscore the gravity of such offences’
SINGAPORE: In Parliament on Wednesday (Nov 4), it was announced that among the proposed amendments to Singapore’s Transboundary Haze Pollution Act of 2014 is one that would raise fines for companies linked to the haze tenfold. At present, entities found to have caused or…
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Build the next 70 together: Workers' Party marks 69th anniversary, asks Singaporeans to become monthly donors
SINGAPORE: The city-state’s most important opposition party saw its 69th year of “working for Singapore” on Tuesday (Nov 3), and its secretary-general, Pritam Singh, took the opportunity to call for more support, asking Singaporeans to help the WP “build the next 70” years. Mr…
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Senior Minister of State for Health Tan Kiat How apologises for 9-hour public healthcare IT disruption
SINGAPORE: In a speech in Parliament on Tuesday (Nov 3), Senior Minister of State for Health Tan Kiat How addressed an outage affecting public healthcare services that lasted more than nine hours last month. On Oct 13, more than 4,000 outpatient appointments needed to be…